Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1962 March 29 and May 8.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with circa 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Peter Josef William Debye, Paul Sophus Epstein, David Hilbert, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Wolfgang Pauli, Arthur Pringsheim, Fritz Reiche, Arnold Sommerfeld, O. Wallach, J. Zenneck; Universität München, and Universität Göttingen.

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966-

Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966

Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985

Hilbert, David, 1862-1943.

Laue, Max von, 1879-1960.

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.

Reiche, F. (Fritz), 1883-1969.

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.

Universität Göttingen.

Universität München.

Atomic theory.

Nuclear physics.

Quantum theory.

Science -- History.

Oral histories. aat

Interviews. aat

Sound recordings. aat

Transcripts. aat

Physicists -- Interviews. lcsh

Pringsheim, Arthur.

Wallach, O.

Zenneck, J.

Kuhn, Thomas S. interviewer.

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988- interviewer.

AIP-ICOS

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics.